On Intelligence

Humans suffer from the perversion of perfectionism, which leads to insecurity, greed, selfishness, jealousy and conflict.  But our nature is to be imperfect.  In fact, all of nature is imperfect.  Yet it continues, it survives, without ever looking back or looking down.  All that matters is now.  Humanity has been torturing itself since its very beginning.  We have always been plagued by deep insecurities about ourselves, our future and our place in the world, just as all other species were deeply grounded: they have faith in the present, and they have faith in the natural order of the planet’s physical forces.  Trying to alter the planet to our advantage is futile, and self-destructive.  Our narratives of supremacy and sentience are facades we created to hide our deep insecurities about our place on Earth.  Deep down we feel inferior to everything else, because we have made ourselves outcasts: we have failed to understand the democratic, grassroots-driven, collective sentience of the ecosystem. If any such thing as intelligence or sentience ever existed on Earth, then the ecosystem itself is really the only brain around. This is a version of intelligence we refuse to understand, because it is beyond our ownership and control.  It is a sentience which follows the laws of physics rather than manufactured human narratives of supremacy.  It is selfless, timeless, and it has nothing to prove to itself, or to others.  It is supreme on its own right.  Everyone and everything on this planet is an important, vital element of this brain, however much “sentient” they have been rated out to be by insecure, small-minded humans.

George is an author, researcher, molecular biologist and food scientist.

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